GDT joins the organisation that is setting the international standard for carbon
Tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies has joined the prestigious ASTM International, an organisation that sets international standards for materials and is currently working on setting a standard for carbon derived from recycled sources.
Originally founded in 1898 as the American Section of the International Society of Testing Materials it grew out of the need to set a standard for the steel in railway lines after frequent rail breaks began affecting public confidence in the railway industry.
As well as the original office in Pennsylvania, today it has branches in Washington DC, Belgium, Canada, China and Peru and has set the standard for more than 12,500 materials. Read More
Commercial operations and academic researchers alike are discovering that breaking down a vulcanized tire into materials of a high-enough grade to use in new, high-quality car tires is no easy task.
Exhaust emissions from oil from recycled tyres have been found to have thirty per cent less nitrogen oxide, which contributes to photochemical smog and lower particle mass than oil from fossil sources, but almost the same performance, according to research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology.
“No one knows just how many end-of-life car and truck tyres there are in Australia, but what we do know is that they are an environmental scourge,” says Craig Dunn the CEO of an Australian company that has developed a world-first process for recycling old tyres into oil, carbon and steel.
